California and Colorado have affirmative consent laws (the only two I’m aware of). Other states are presenting similar bills. What is the difference between “no means no” and affirmative consent?
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I’ve never really understood the usefulness of these laws, in concept the idea is solid. When you sign a contract you are giving affirmative consent, a company can’t take money out of your bank account just because they asked you and you didn’t say no, they have to have proof that you said yes. But in terms of actual usefulness it relies on the contract, which we don’t have in sex. A person can just as easily say ‘she/he said yes’ as they can say ‘she/he didn’t say no’, and it’s still the same problem of one word against another, with no witnesses.
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